Scientia potentia Est—on the role of knowledge in computational argumentation

A Lauscher, H Wachsmuth, I Gurevych… - Transactions of the …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Despite extensive research efforts in recent years, computational argumentation (CA)
remains one of the most challenging areas of natural language processing. The reason for …

AQE: Argument quadruplet extraction via a quad-tagging augmented generative approach

J Guo, L Cheng, W Zhang, S Kok, X Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Argument mining involves multiple sub-tasks that automatically identify argumentative
elements, such as claim detection, evidence extraction, stance classification, etc. However …

Deontic sentence classification using tree kernel classifiers

D Liga, M Palmirani - Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference, 2022 - Springer
The aim of this work is to employ Tree Kernel algorithms to classify natural language in the
legal domain (ie deontic sentences and rules). More precisely, an innovative way of …

[PDF][PDF] Transfer learning with sentence embeddings for argumentative evidence classification

D Liga, M Palmirani - 20th Workshop on Computational Models of …, 2020 - orbilu.uni.lu
This work describes a simple Transfer Learning methodology aiming at discriminating
evidences related to Argumentation Schemes using three different pre-trained neural …

Detecting “slippery slope” and other argumentative stances of opposition using tree kernels in monologic discourse

D Liga, M Palmirani - Rules and Reasoning: Third International Joint …, 2019 - Springer
The aim of this study is to propose an innovative methodology to classify argumentative
stances in a monologic argumentative context. Particularly, the proposed approach shows …

Classifying argumentative stances of opposition using tree kernels

D Liga, M Palmirani - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The approach proposed in this study aims to classify argumentative oppositions. A major
assumption of this work is that discriminating among different argumentative stances of …

Argumentation schemes as templates? Combining bottom-up and top-down knowledge representation

D Liga, M Palmirani - Workshop on Computational Models of Natural …, 2020 - orbilu.uni.lu
This paper describes a long-term research goal which aims at creating a middleware
interface between Argumentation Schemes and natural language. This idea comes from the …

Combining tree kernels and tree representations to classify argumentative stances

D Liga, M Palmirani - CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, 2020 - cris.unibo.it
This work investigates how the combination of different tree representations with different
Tree Kernel functions influences the results of the classifications in two specific case studies …

The Argumentation Scheme from Vicarious Liability

D Liga - JURISIN 2023, 2023 - orbilu.uni.lu
In this paper, we propose the formalisation of a new argu-mentation scheme for the domain
of legal argumentation, which we call Argument from Vicarious Liability. This scheme is …

An Example of Argumentation Scheme from Liability: The Case of Vicarious Liability

D Liga - JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we explore a new argumentation pattern in legal discourse, referred to as the
'Argument from Vicarious Liability.'Central to our discussion is the 'Respondeat …